Ernst Gonell

Ernst Gonell (24 November 1902-23 February 1945) was a Major-General of the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.

Biography
Ernst Gonell was born on 24 November 1902 in Konigsberg in the German Empire, and Gonell joined the German 39th Infantry Regiment in 1919. By 1939 he was a Major in Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht army and he served in the Fuhrerreserve as a General der Infanterie. In 1943 he took over the Fahnenjunkerschule V in Posen in General Government (present-day Poznan, Poland) and he defended the city from a Soviet Union Red Army attack in 1945 during World War II. Gonell was killed in action on 23 February 1945.